Emil Guillermo
Emil Guillermo wrote for almost 15 years his “Amok” column for AsianWeek, which was the largest English language Asian American newsweekly in the nation. “Amok” was considered the most widely-read column on Asian American issues in the U.S.
His thoughtful and provocative social commentaries have appeared in print in the San Francisco Chronicle, SFGate.com, San Francisco Examiner, USA Today, Honolulu Star Bulletin, Honolulu Advertiser, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and in syndication throughout the country.
His early columns are compiled in a book “Amok: Essays from an Asian American Perspective,” which won an American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 2000.
Guillermo’s journalistic career began in television and radio broadcasting. At National Public Radio, he was the first Asian American male to anchor a regularly scheduled national news broadcast when he hosted “All Things Considered” from 1989-1991. During his watch, major news broke, including the violence in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of dictatorships in Romania and Panama. From Washington, Guillermo hosted the shows that broke the news.
As a television journalist, his award-winning reports and commentaries have appeared on NBC, CNN, and PBS. He was a reporter in San Francisco, Dallas, and Washington, D.C.
After NPR, Guillermo became a press secretary and speechwriter for then Congressman Norman Mineta, the former cabinet member in the Bush and Clinton Administrations.
After his Hill experience, Guillermo returned to the media, hosting his own talk show in Washington, D.C. on WRC Radio. He returned to California where he hosted talk shows in San Francisco at KSFO/KGO, and in Sacramento at KSTE/KFBK.
Guillermo’s columns in the ethnic press inspired a roundtable discussion program that he created, hosted, executive produced, resulting in more than 100 original half-hour programs. “NCM-TV: New California Media” was seen on PBS stations in San Francisco, Sacramento and Los Angeles, and throughout the state on cable.
Guillermo also spent time as a newspaper reporter covering the poor and the minority communities of California’s Central Valley. His writing and reporting on California’s sterilization program on the poor and minorities won him statewide and national journalism awards.
In 2015, Guillermo received the prestigious Dr. Suzanne Ahn Award for Civil Rights and Social Justice from the Asian American Journalists Association. The award, named after the late Korean American physician from Texas, recognizes excellence in the coverage of civil rights and social justice issues in the Asian American and Pacific Islander community.
Guillermo, a native San Franciscan, went to Lowell High School, and graduated from Harvard College, where he was an Ivy Orator and class humorist, a distinction shared by fellow Lampoon members like James Downey (Saturday Night Live) and Conan O’Brien.
Find out what he’s up to at www.amok.com.
Emil's writing
- Emil Guillermo: America's Impeachment is our Pro-Democracy MovementBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Kamala Harris fizzles as diversity's hope in presidential raceBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On pardoning 46 million turkeys, passing the tofu pot pie, and the holiday table talkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: You feeling the impeachment hearings, yah?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Thank those who uphold the truth; Does that include Nikki Haley?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A changing Asian America? Don't bet on it.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Celebrating the Nationals, and the World Series of Politics–ImpeachmentBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's dog and gloating; California fires; and HalloweenBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Asian Americans were lynched too--On Trump's offensive lynching remarkBLOG
- Thoughts on the CNN-NYT Democratic presidential debate and why Bernie should go veganBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A California blackout, Trump's defiance, and the First AmendmentBLOG
- Judge affirms race-conscious admissions in Harvard caseBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Blowing the whistle on TrumpBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Impeachment season has arrivedBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Asian American community scores a win as SNL drops Shane GillisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Presidential debate winner? Bowen Yang; and what to do about SNL's new racist comicBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Remembering 9/11 through an Asian American named Chin Sun Pak Wells; and a Sunday school visit with Jimmy CarterBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Hong Kong, Democracy, and TrumpBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Burning Man in the Trump eraBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Fear the blurts, not just the tweets on Greenland, public charge, recession, and now birthright citizenshipBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Dayton's message to the president, and still feeling "othered" in AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: America has a white supremacy problem, and it starts at the topBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Does Andrew Yang know the Kool-Aid he was drinking at the CNN debate?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Marianne vs. Trump the public racist: Will the 2020 election be a referendum on White Supremacy?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Go back"? "Go home"? Part of my story--the human zoos at the 1904 World's FairBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: "Go home" is Trump's Foray into FascismBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Americans go back home?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The USWNT Win Was the Highlight of My Forced Visit to IowaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Kamala Harris be the first Asian American president?BLOG
- The future of immigration? That Rio Grande image, DACA, and Gen ZBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After five days of quiet solidarity for Vincent Chin, get ready for the new ICE ageBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight is on in Hong Kong, but there's a battle for Asian American civil liberties in the U.S. tooBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Father's Day gift? Give the gift of Emil Amok!BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The President gets a D for D-DayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's Queen ProblemsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Spelling Bee Champs, NBA Finals, Jeremy Lin and the Golden State WarriorsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Philippines? India? Trump is our homegrown democracy crisisBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I.M. Pei - The death of an icon who built iconsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A desperate Trump rides the TigerBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Another Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month? Not like May for Maria RessaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor exposes politics of fear in Census citizenship questionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The Mueller report and "F" words, "A" words, and "I" wordsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The hero returns and Tiger's mom is no Tiger MomBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump's sanctuary dump and the mischaracterization of California's law to protect immigrantsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: New Gerrymandering Proposal--Redrawing Congressional Districts in Trump’s Image--and other matters of April FoolsBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Barr's Cliff Notes on Mueller report make for perfect AALDEF dinner talkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The fight for our legacy communities in New York's Lower East Side and around the U.S.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My Muslim family, the New Zealand video, and the Great ReplacementBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My mom, International Women's Day, and politicizing hate in AmericaBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On Oscar's "Bao," Trump in Hanoi, and the stories of Michael CohenBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After Trump declares national emergency--my Rx: Ken JeongBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why you won't hear about the Seaport Three in the State of the Union addressBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Don't be fooled, the SCOTUS ruling on Korematsu still holds; Remembering a modest immigrantBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Why won't Kamala Harris talk about being Asian on CNN's Iowa Town Hall?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Shutdown exit plan? On the brink of blinkdom.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Our "new national nightmare"? Impeachment talk on the rise for MLK weekendBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Furloughed Asian American federal workers blame President Shutdown; and painting DC Spalding GrayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: I am but a trim tab for diversity watching Sandra Oh on the Golden GlobesBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The grandmother vs. the motherf*****BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Happy new year, you crazy rich Asians!BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Trump politicizes death of California Police Officer Ronil SinghBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: My gift to you for Christmastime--a real Donald Trump shutdownBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Maybe abdication would appeal to Trump? How about exile?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Time to remove the redacted one?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On George H.W. Bush--Bury the man, but not the truthBLOG
- PODCAST: Emil Amok's Takeout - Asian American and Pacific Islander Mental Health Empowerment?BLOG
- Emil Gullermo: A good immigration story and a sad one, days apartBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Cooking Trump the Turkey and more, Herb Caen three-dot styleBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: A new divided America after the midterm elections, but Trump? Still the same.BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Tuesday's vote, our Asian American racial identity, and the Harvard caseBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On hoodoos, the Harvard trial, and story slammingBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: October is Filipino American History Month--get out the birthday suit and celebrate!BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: The beginning of America's undoing--the confirmation of Brett KavanaughBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Racism, sexism, and Brett KavanaughBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Will Senate enable Brett Kavanaugh's bum-rush of the high court?BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: After Florence and Mangkhut, time to talk seriously about climate change?BLOG
- On anonymity, Kavanaugh, and exclusionBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: On death, racial slurs, and John McCain; and one more memory of historian Dawn MabalonBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Crazy poor Asian on "Crazy Rich Asians"BLOG
- Filipino American scholar Dawn Mabalon, my friend and historical muse, leaves us at 46BLOG
- "Some Asians"? A retired Harvard dean's telling remarkBLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Anti-affirmative action in yellowfaceBLOG
- Will “Crazy Rich Asians” make us forget the “screwed over poor Asian Americans,” and all the rest of us?BLOG
- Comey’s “A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership”–Time to get on the same pageBLOG
- The striker who became teacher – Podcast with Daniel P. Gonzales on how ethnic studies was birthed at San Francisco State UniversityBLOG
- Census citizenship question? Only to harass people of color. Plus, Ass’n of Asian American Studies meets in SF 50 years after historic strikeBLOG
- At #MarchForOurLives, kids will lead the fight against gun violenceBLOG
- Konnichiwa? Zinke’s stink a sign of cluelessness as xenophobia rises in USBLOG
- PODCAST – California legislator David Chiu on the most Asian American state being sued by the fedsBLOG
- The shape of things? Oscar winner Guillermo del Toro says keep dreaming, as ICE whips up fear among immigrantsBLOG
- Almost an Asian American Winter Olympics, but no medal for NBCBLOG
- Trump keeps pushing the limits of American WhitenessBLOG
- Lunar new year dinner to avert constitutional crisis?BLOG
- State of the Union? Truthfully–chaotic, unless Trump says thisBLOG
- Why did Donald Trump make DACA/Dreamers his political football?BLOG
- “J” is for “Jawdrop”– Time for the censure of President Donald J. TrumpBLOG
- Trump urges “Love Bill” for DACA, but a California federal judge offers real protection for Dreamers; and a 20/20 on OprahBLOG
- Trump’s megalomania exposed in “Fire and Fury”BLOG
- A Bitcoin for your thoughts as Trump Year One ends and 2018 beginsBLOG
- Fake tax cuts in a taxing holiday seasonBLOG
- When San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee invited me in from the rainBLOG
- Flips all over the place–Flynn, Trump, Taxes, and DACABLOG
- First Charlie Rose, then Matt Lauer; Who tells Trump, “You’re fired”?BLOG
- On workplace harassment, “Me Too,” and ApuBLOG
- This November’s word? Trumpudiation–but not everyone is cheeringBLOG
- Fil Vets of WWII don’t die, they “just fade away;” but so does the feel good momentBLOG
- Filipino WWII Vet Almeda wins his claim; Fil-Vets honored at Congressional Gold Medal ceremonyBLOG
- If Filipinos were here first, shouldn’t this be the United States of the Philippines?BLOG
- Big fires in NorCal; Vandalism in Little ManilaBLOG
- Marilou Danley, Stephen Paddock, and gun controlBLOG
- Kneeling for Puerto Rico and surviving the survival politics of Donald TrumpBLOG
- Bipartisan politics wins Congressional medal for Filipino Vets, right-wing ire for Trump on DACABLOG
- Podcast–What you need to know now about DACABLOG
- What killed DACA? Trump’s white identity politicsBLOG
- Three Asian Americans on Harvey: A stranded evacuee, a Katrina survivor, and a Trump boosterBLOG
- Hurricane Harvey is more proof–Trump doesn’t know how to act presidential, or humanBLOG
- Trump’s total eclipse of American valuesBLOG
- Rejecting a Trumpulent AmericaBLOG
- Remembering the evictions at San Francisco’s International HotelBLOG
- Eddie Huang caps an AAJA committed to telling our Asian American storiesBLOG
- Actor BD Wong says his Emmy-nominated role in “Mr. Robot” doesn’t “defame or devalue trans-ness” or he would not do itBLOG
- Congress shines light on extrajudicial killings in the Philippines; A survivor’s tale under oathBLOG
- The Slants’ Simon Tam speaks candidly on PODCAST: “The cure for hate speech isn’t censorship…let communities decide, not government.”BLOG
- Oh no, “Hawaii Five-0” and what it means to all of usBLOG
- PODCAST – Last night of “Amok Monologues” at the San Diego Fringe FestivalBLOG
- Lessons from Vincent Chin murder 35 years after; Podcast interview with Helen Zia; and thoughts on my interview with Chin’s killer, Ronald EbensBLOG
- Who is Asian American? On AMEMSA, Vincent Chin, and my Amok Monologues for Father’s Day. PODCAST EXTRA: Karthick RamakrishnanBLOG
- Paris Accord pullout? Trump’s twitter logorrhea impacts our political climate even more; and a Podcast on our community conundrum: Are South Asians really Asian?BLOG
- Emil Amok’s Takeout Podcast – No rest on Memorial Day for a WWII Filipino Vet; and a conversation with AAAS President-elect Theo Gonzalves on APAHMBLOG
- Emil Guillermo PODCAST: Randall Park at the APAICS gala for AAPI Heritage Month talks about Asian American representation in the mediaBLOG
- On Alex Tizon’s “Lola”BLOG
- “Mommy, I need you,” a Mother’s Day podcast memory; plus Trump grows more Nixony by the dayBLOG
- After firing Comey, Trump emerges the New NixonBLOG
- Photographer Corky Lee on his life, exclusion, and the Golden Spike photo; PODCAST EXTRA: That Trumpcare vote, and moreBLOG
- Trump’s 100 vs. real anniversaries: the LA riots, a cousin’s death, and Asian Pacific American Heritage Month; PODCAST: Will Dao get a tax cut? And more…BLOG
- Emil Guillermo: Earth Day–PODCAST Interview with Asian Pacific Environmental Network’s Miya Yoshitani, Trump’s 100 Days, and Bill O’Reilly’s oustingBLOG
- Dragged United passenger Dr. David Dao is no Rosa Parks, but he could be a poster boy for all consumers; PODCAST: Dr. Dao’s case; Mimi HwangBLOG
- United must treat Asian Americans–or any other passengers–as human beings with dignityBLOG
- Trump’s Cruise Missile Viagra; Gorsuch; and a PODCAST: Bataan Death March–75 years later; and beyond whitewashing of “Ghost in the Shell”BLOG
- Military necessity? Japanese Latin Americans say U.S. owes an apology for WWII kidnappings; Also on the PODCAST, Trumpcare’s defeatBLOG
- Getting justice could be even harder with Judge Gorsuch on the Supreme CourtBLOG
- Thanks to Hawaii and Ismail Elshikh, Travel Ban 2.0 Blocked For NowBLOG
- Is Srinivas Kuchibhotla the Vincent Chin for South Asians?BLOG
- Sanitized travel ban 2.0 has database provision to criminalize Muslims in America; PODCAST–Deepa Iyer says immigrant communities “already living in fear”BLOG
- Undocumented, But Undaunted–An Asian American DACA recipient experiences Trump’s big speechBLOG
- Beyond current travel ban proposal–Are Asians and Asian Americans next?BLOG
- Oscars, bathroom debate, and immigration–In one year, America goes from #OscarsSoWhite to #TrumpSoWhiteBLOG
- Phil Tajitsu Nash remembers the 75th anniversary of the signing of Executive Order 9066 & the WWII incarceration of Japanese AmericansBLOG
- Trump gets trumped by federal judges out west, and a new PODCAST– In Virginia, a judge protects a Filipino American’s rightsBLOG
- How a Yemeni girl and her dad missed the Super Bowl, but beat Trump’s travel ban–and stressed out their lawyersBLOG
- UPDATED–Judge Robart’s halt of travel ban frees a Yemeni American father and daughter after “Kafka-esque” journey from DjiboutiBLOG
- In a Trump era, Fred Korematsu matters more today than everBLOG
- Not shutting up now–King Donald’s War on Immigrants, and a podcast extra with Dream activist Hina NaveedBLOG
- CAPAC leader Rep. Judy Chu on skipping the Trump inaugural, saving health care, Dreamers, and moreBLOG
- Creeping along from Obama 44 to Trump 45BLOG
- Thoughts on Rep. John Lewis, Desus and Mero, and Steve Harvey for the MLK WeekendBLOG
- Asian American says Obamacare saved his life, in AALDEF podcastBLOG
- The GOP ethics reversal and Asian American leader Mike HondaBLOG
- Our top posts of 2016, plus a podcast on Fox News, Asian Americans, and affirmative actionBLOG
- My holiday gift to you–A Disaggregated Asian America!BLOG
- After Broadway exit, “Allegiance” makes nationwide one-night stand, Dec. 13BLOG
- On Pearl Harbor Day, Mike Honda hopes everyone remembers our history lessonBLOG
- How Trump’s business partner in the Philippines, Jose E.B. Antonio, does business with Filipino AmericansBLOG
- Obama pardons turkeys; should we pardon Trump?BLOG
- Duterte can’t bury past with Marcos, as the politically “inconceivable” continues in the Philippines and the U.S. of TrumpBLOG
- Asian American vote? Trump #NotMyPresident yet, but America still my country and Obama still our leaderBLOG
- Green light for doubting voters–FBI clears Clinton, Trump goes back to rigged talk; Remember Mallika Das on Election DayBLOG
- On Addison Russell, Asian American World Series hero, the World Series, and VotingBLOG
- Obamacare, Millennials, and Hillary or Donald for Halloween?BLOG
- Third presidential debate moment–Asian Americans know what it means when politicians don’t accept election resultsBLOG
- How Filipinos discovered America, though America still resists discovering themBLOG
- Trump tapes are the vulgarization of American democracyBLOG
- 2016 National Asian American Survey More Revealing Than Veep DebateBLOG
- Filipino American History Month opens with a jolt of Hitler from Philippine President DuterteBLOG
- Before the Clinton vs. Trump “Super Bowl” of Presidential Debates, will you kneel with Time cover boy Colin Kaepernick?BLOG
- “Master of None” Emmy winner’s message to Tiger Moms–Don’t let your babies grow up to be violinistsBLOG
- Post 9/11, President Carter’s Sunday complaint, Hillary Clinton’s pneumonia, & Sunny Wells turning 40BLOG
- Debate over Marcos burial a red herring for Duterte’s Marcos LiteBLOG
- The day the Philippines first stood up to MarcosBLOG
- Did you Lochte Olympics like I Lochte Olympics?BLOG
- Bill Clinton and a veteran Sacramento TV reporter make my AAJABLOG
- The Donald trumps insult to Filipinos with veiled assassination threatBLOG
- Asian Americans, people of color not taken for granted by Clinton, but she isn’t focused on usBLOG
- Hillary had me at Rodham, as she stakes out the new middleBLOG
- Donald Trump’s new heights of megalomaniaBLOG
- My interview with an Asian American for TrumpBLOG
- On John Leguizamo, colonial mentality, and DallasBLOG
- A bombastic July 4th is needed to drown the sorrow of our Summer of TerrorBLOG
- For many Asian Americans, Vincent Chin’s death was an awakeningBLOG
- Father’s Day, Orlando, and IslamophobiaBLOG
- Orlando massacre another wakeup call for all Americans to unite against homophobia, Islamophobia, and gun violenceBLOG
- Muhammad Ali spoke out for all people of color, even Asian AmericansBLOG
- Asian Americans back Bernie Sanders in new Field Poll in California, but don’t jump to conclusions–yetBLOG
- Blasts from the past in the 2016 campaign season, with a touch of anti-Asian xenophobiaBLOG
- Not a spy in the house-Chinese American scientist Xiaoxing Xi; his daughter, Joyce; and Wen Ho LeeBLOG
- In the red part of blue state California, Asian Americans have felt the burn, find hope in SandersBLOG
- Does SFPD racist texting scandal help us understand NYPD’s Liang-Gurley case?BLOG
- Prince–Beyond race, a genius’ vision, an activist’s heartBLOG
- We are all No. 42 on Jackie Robinson Day, even Asian Americans like Tim LincecumBLOG
- The nostalgic racism of Fox and “American Idol,” still hung up on William HungBLOG
- Harvard admits record number of Asian Americans, and a majority-minority class of 2020BLOG
- The tie that binds–the Supreme Court after Scalia is a boon to labor unionsBLOG
- Thinking about the Brussels strikes and my new fear–DemagoguephobiaBLOG
- Barack and Raul is the new dance beat in Cuba, but will it catch fire for Congress to end the blockade?BLOG
- On the race question, Donald Trump, Democrats, and why not an Asian American debate?BLOG
- #OscarsSoWhite? Oscars so long, dull, and out of focusBLOG
- Shut down Guantanamo, and while you’re at it, don’t call it GitmoBLOG
- Justice Antonin Scalia’s death signals potential for change–time for an Asian American justice on the Supreme Court?BLOG
- Year of the Monkey, my father’s birthday, & Sacramento Kings’ DeMarcus Cousins’ ignoranceBLOG
- Why I’m not watching #SuperBowl50, but rooting for Kenny Stabler insteadBLOG
- Iowa? More than 90 percent white, but Asian Americans will caucus in Election 2016BLOG
- Vincent Rodriguez III as the love object of Rachel Bloom? CW’s “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” is my kind of showBLOG
- Obama’s one last appeal for a United States that works–togetherBLOG
- Asian Americans not immune from gun violence, so why no mention in Obama’s CNN gun show?BLOG
- 50 years later, Asian American images and links galore for 2015; Here comes Aziz Ansari in 2016BLOG
- Christmas horror at Miss Universe pageant or Trump campaign ploy?BLOG
- Debate fearmongers should celebrate the end of the Chinese Exclusion Act and rethink politics of fearBLOG
- Asian Americans know why Obama gave the terrorism speech he did, as Trump fans the hysteriaBLOG
- The FBI finally used the “T” word in San Bernardino, but will it fan “Islamophobia”?BLOG
- Planned Parenthood shooting claims Asian American victim, Hawaii’s Jennifer MarkovskyBLOG
- Syrian refugees, Japanese American internees, and the new American hysteriaBLOG
- The fight for pay equity is not over for many Filipino veterans of WWIIBLOG
- We should have heard from UC knife suspect Faisal MohammadBLOG
- San Francisco for Halloween–Shrimp Boy or Ed Lee?BLOG
- Gay Manongs, the hard life of Larry Itliong, and the sexual fluidity of the first wave of Filipino AmericansBLOG
- UPDATE–Kristof’s Facebook response to “Asian Advantage” critics is a semi-mea culpaBLOG
- Nick Kristof’s distasteful reframing of the model minority as “The Asian Advantage” in the New York TimesBLOG
- Asian Americans No. 1 by 2065, but let’s celebrate the 50th anniversary of the end of racist quotas and “immigration interruptus” nowBLOG
- All the anti-Muslim talk in the presidential campaign, and Pope Francis’ Asian American numbersBLOG
- A whole lot of racial profiling going on–ask James Blake, Jeremy Lin, Xiaoxing Xi, Sherry ChenBLOG
- America’s profound ignorance about the Delano Grape Strike, Filipino Americans, and Larry ItliongBLOG
- Wall Street Journal’s “chink in its armor” absolutely requires an apologyBLOG
- The silencing of Roanoke journalists by bullets, Jorge Ramos by Donald TrumpBLOG
- Riding Wong Kim Ark to combat GOP’s anchor baby talk, and thanks to family of Dr. Suzanne AhnBLOG
- Why I write and go amok on behalf of Asian Americans everywhereBLOG
- So many Republican candidates, but do they want the Voting Rights Act to help us vote for them?BLOG
- Simon Tam’s fight to reappropriate “The Slants” seems more uphill than everBLOG
- Breaking News: NY Times/CBS poll on race doesn’t care much about Asian Americans or LatinosBLOG
- ‘Last Fable Day’? Asian Americans looking for a first one, as “Fresh Off the Boat” Snubbed for Emmy AwardsBLOG
- Let’s end this civil war on affirmative action among Asian AmericansBLOG
- Victory for same-sex marriage must lead to broader focus on LGBTQ discriminationBLOG
- Ronald Ebens, Vincent Chin’s killer, denies financial windfall, debt to Chin estate in new interviewBLOG
- Vincent Chin died 33 years ago, an injustice still; Ronald Ebens, Chin’s killer, still owes millions to the Chin estate.BLOG
- Rachel Dolezal, Dylann Roof, and Father’s DayBLOG
- Race Mixers Unite–Remember the Lovings, the Naims, and all the Asian bachelors pastBLOG
- Asian American family not satisfied after Louisville prosecutor reprimanded for insensitive commentsBLOG
- Why you should care that China covets your SpratlysBLOG
- Asian Americans will miss David LettermanBLOG
- The new Asian American civil war over affirmative action?BLOG
- Do Asian American lives matter?BLOG
- From SCOTUS to Jenner, LGBTQ is on the front burner of civil rightsBLOG
- Sherpa fears Nepal earthquake could end climbing season on Mt. Everest (updated)BLOG
- Hikaru Nakamura, No. 1 US chess player, and Chloe Portia Chik, Asian face on the Hillary video–a new Asian American identity?BLOG
- NYPD’s Patrick Cherry’s Apology? Full investigation needed firstBLOG
- If you sue for discrimination like Ellen Pao, you’d better have the goods. Or be like this Uber driver with a smoking hot video.BLOG
- Where’s Patsy Mink? Starbucks’ #RaceTogether short-shrifts Asian AmericansBLOG
- Vincent Wu’s birthday memories–jailed at Selma in 1965, worked security for MLK at the March finaleBLOG
- Post-Selma rap lessons from “Fresh Off The Boat,” OU’s SAE, and President ObamaBLOG
- On Selma, Todd Endo, and the continuing fight for justice in all of America’s institutionsBLOG
- Oscars? Here’s the Emil for Best Minimal Presence by an Asian American in a Best Picture nomineeBLOG
- New Year thoughts for NYPD’s Peter Liang, Montana’s Markus Kaarma, San Francisco’s Stephen GuillermoBLOG
- Is “Fresh Off The Boat” historical or the taming of Eddie Huang?BLOG
- Happy FK Day! FK Day? For Fred Korematsu, of courseBLOG
- Diversity at the movies? Was that Kiyoshi Kuromiya in a few frames of “Selma”?BLOG
- Margaret Cho talks to me about the Golden Globes, the White Oscars, “Fresh Off the Boat,” and SexBLOG
- Margaret Cho stole the show at the Golden GlobesBLOG
- Asian Americans are Charlie HebdoBLOG
- “Saturday Night Live” TV ad parody on Asian American Doll is downright racistBLOG
- A stocking stuffer full of “Serial,” North Korea’s Sony hack, John Yoo’s torture memo, and Marcus Mariota for the holidaysBLOG
- Racism, Eric Garner, and that videotapeBLOG
- Officer Darren Wilson’s words, and thoughts on Michael Brown, Trayvon Martin, and my cousin StephenBLOG
- Executive action, immigration, and nostalgia for when government really did workBLOG
- After the 2014 midterms, the invisible Asian American voter unveiledBLOG
- On the importance of the unimportance of baseball and the San Francisco GiantsBLOG
- No “Asian American Privilege” here–Baseball stars Travis Ishikawa and Kolten Wong steal the stage in America’s national pastimeBLOG
- On the Trans-Pacific surveillance of Filipino writer Carlos BulosanBLOG
- American Filipinos, political polls, and “The Voice”BLOG
- Heather Marlowe and Emma Sulkowicz know rape is no joke, why don’t the Simpsons?BLOG
- On Obama’s bombing of Syria and our “non-war” warBLOG
- More debate, not more bombs, needed 13 years after 9/11BLOG
- President Obama’s immigration delayBLOG
- Emil Guillermo on PETA’s Virtual Reality: What’s good for chickens may be good for stopping racismBLOG
- Emil Guillermo on Labor Day, CNN, NPR, and a cross-country drive in the mediaBLOG
- Ferguson, the First Amendment, and the Asian American Journalists AssociationBLOG
- Standup Guy: Robin Williams was an honorary Filipino American, gone too soonBLOG
- An attack during the attack: An Asian American in Israel and his view on the Gaza warBLOG
- Glory and racism: Nixon’s audio clip on the Vietnam WarBLOG
- Fighting the overwhelming images of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17BLOG
- Easy answer to Fox’s “Chinaman” problem–Beckel begone; Why more than a half-hearted apology is neededBLOG
- Instead of real immigration reform, we get a border crisis–made in the U.S.A.BLOG
- The slow death of freedom, democracy, and journalismBLOG
- Remembering Vincent Chin: The Passion and Agony of a CommunityBLOG
- Trudging on: The fight for Native American justice, The Slants, and Stephen Guillermo’s posthumous degreeBLOG
- Not My Father’s Horse RacesBLOG
- Jon Meis: The Asian American with pepper spray is the hero in the Seattle Pacific University shootingBLOG
- Elliot Rodger’s manifesto shows self-hate fueled anti-Asian violence that kicked off Isla Vista rampageBLOG
- Guillermo family and San Francisco District Attorney’s office meet for first time; #justiceforstephen continuesBLOG
- #JusticeForStephen? The Guillermo family continues to hopeBLOG
- In San Francisco, the murderer of Stephen Guillermo may be set free: #JusticeforStephenBLOG
- Happy Asian American Pacific Islander Month…and BTW, the race aspects of the murder of Vincent Chin are no urban mythBLOG
- Slam dunk: The NBA’s fast break to racial justice on Donald SterlingBLOG
- Sherpa solidarity–from Queens to Nepal–standing up to the legacy of the mountainBLOG
- The Supreme Court ruling on Michigan’s Proposal 2 makes the fight for affirmative action harderBLOG
- Good Friday? Thank goodness Easter is just a rolling rock awayBLOG
- From San Francisco to New York, FBI’s Leland Yee operation is a stinging “model minority” busterBLOG
- Asian American Hustle? With CA Senator Leland Yee’s arrest, Asian American empowerment takes a hitBLOG
- Grace Lee Boggs coming to big screen near you? Let’s hope so.BLOG
- In California, SCA 5 may be DOA due to Asian Americans against affirmative actionBLOG
- The Oscars, Mumia Abu-Jamal, and the Senate smear of Debo AdegbileBLOG
- On conformity, the Oscars, and a talk with “Jeopardy” hero Arthur ChuBLOG
- On remembering Executive Order 9066, the Japanese American internment, and seeing “House of Cards”BLOG
- A little love for Shani Davis, Julie Chu, and J.R. Celski, Diversity’s Champs at the Winter Olympics in SochiBLOG
- State of Asian America: Updates on beating victim Randy Gener, SNL, “yellow voice,” Bruno Mars, and moreBLOG
- Amid the Super Bowl hype, Randy Gener’s story is more typical of the Asian American immigrant experience than you thinkBLOG
- It’s Asian vs. Asian in California’s 17th C.D., but Mike Honda says “it’s not a civil war”BLOG
- Seahawks’ Richard Sherman offended by word “thug,” but Justin Bieber probably digs itBLOG
- “12 Years a Slave” Worthy of Golden Globe–and Oscar Too?BLOG
- Finally, the world notices Asian American Kenneth Bae–but it took a Dennis RodmanBLOG
- Farewell 2013: To more amok moments in 2014BLOG
- Far from classy: “Anchorman 2” didn’t need racist joke against FilipinosBLOG
- Forty days and counting, eyewitnesses talk of the aftermath of Super Typhoon Haiyan (Yolanda)BLOG
- Fight discrimination or get plastic surgery? The eye-opening case of Julie ChenBLOG
- Nelson Mandela taught us how to fight for racial justice–and how to winBLOG
- Fast food for lunch? Join a one-day strike to say “No Wai”BLOG
- Yelling “stop deportations,” an undocumented Asian American stands up and Obama stands downBLOG
- Katy Perry’s fashion imperialism on the American Music AwardsBLOG
- Thoughts on Super Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), the Philippines, and Veterans DayBLOG
- Let’s hope Saturday Night Live doesn’t laugh off its diversity problemBLOG
- Larry Itliong Tapes II: How the Fil-Am labor leader didn’t sell out, and his comment on Cesar ChavezBLOG
- Computer snafus abound–but let’s hope the website is the worst thing about the Affordable Care ActBLOG
- Restoring Larry Itliong to his rightful place during Filipino American History MonthBLOG
- With biker bullying of Asian American Alexian Lien and his family, have we entered into Vincent Chin territory?BLOG
- Shutdown Government: American Democracy Is Breaking BadBLOG
- Emmys stumble awkwardly: TV’s biggest night exposes showbiz racism, ageismBLOG
- America’s Asian fetish frenzy: An Indian American wins Miss America and CBS’s Julie Chen reveals a different kind of affirmative actionBLOG
- Asian Americans not forgotten by Obama 50 years after March on Washington, Dr. King’s SpeechBLOG
- Asian Americans Join the 50th Anniversary March on WashingtonBLOG
- The 50th anniversary of the March on Washington: Why Asian Americans should be there marching, dreamingBLOG
- Now that stop and frisk is unconstitutional in New York, will we start seeing whites profiled for a change?BLOG
- Rush Limbaugh and the acceptance of low-level racism against Asian AmericansBLOG
- Race conversation? After Asiana gaffe, new Asian American slur at CNBC–a CHITA problemBLOG
- KTVU’s Asiana Airlines Debacle: They fired some people, but you can’t fire racismBLOG
- One Asian American perspective on Zimmerman, TrayvonBLOG
- Racism: Milena Clarke’s old-fashioned experience vs. the new kind after the Asiana crashBLOG
- What equality looks like: scenes from some historic Asian American weddings during San Francisco PrideBLOG
- Court victories bring out massive crowd of Asian Americans at San Francisco PrideBLOG
- Affirmative action alive and well–for now–as the Supreme Court throws Fisher back to the lower courtBLOG
- The Supreme Court’s Affirmative Action Decision: Three ScenariosBLOG
- Snowden, the real patriot exposing the NSA and our virtual democracyBLOG
- IFC’s “Maron” dishes up pineapple slur: So is it hip to be sexist and racist?BLOG
- Liberace: The Queer for Non-QueersBLOG
- Immigration mark-up: Waving a fan to clear the stink of compromiseBLOG
- The immigration distraction: IRS, AP, Benghazi scandals dominate news, but advocates remain optimisticBLOG
- It’s May and the fight for immigration reform is onBLOG
- Conan and the Comedian-in-Chief in a night of acceptable truth-tellingBLOG
- A few things I learned about us after BostonBLOG
- New Asian American goal: putting the family back in the immigration billBLOG
- Associated Press policy change on “illegal immigrant”: a harbinger for immigration changes to come?BLOG
- Wrong admissions notices sent to college applicants; Company says color-blind admissions influenced softwareBLOG
- The national coming out party for same-sex marriage?BLOG
- Redefining the victim: How colleges will soon justify affirmative action-for whitesBLOG
- New York’s Soda Ban: When good ideas become bad lawsBLOG
- White robe, black robe: What was Justice Scalia saying to us about voting rights?BLOG
- Asian Americans have a rooting interest in the Oscar race: Anupam Kher, Dr. Patel in Silver Linings PlaybookBLOG
- A hopeful State of the Union–upstaged by the manhunt for Christopher DornerBLOG
- No sympathy for racist Dukies, but some suggestions for frat parties at DukeBLOG
- A Super Bowl with the lights on and the Asian American stereotypes in those commercialsBLOG
- Fred T. Korematsu Day 2013: Imagining an Asian American Civil Rights Hall of FameBLOG
- Dream Day: The Martin Luther King Day and Inauguration Day CoincidenceBLOG
- The Squirmy “Truth”: Schwarzenegger, Lance Armstrong, an imagined Manti Te’o interview, and Obama IIBLOG
- Get your FBI file this year–because you may have one, just like Filipino American author Carlos BulosanBLOG
- The Disappointing Deal That Avoids the Fiscal CliffBLOG
- Fiscal Cliff? “Freedom Cliff” Gives OK to a Little New Year’s EavesdroppingBLOG
- Newtown: A marker for how far we haven’t come in the gun control debateBLOG
- Right-to-work for Christmas: The Labor Scrooge lives in Michigan and maybe in our communitiesBLOG
- That haunting photo of Ki Suk Han and the American conditionBLOG
- Disco-dancing toward the Fiscal CliffBLOG
- A Happy Thanksgiving Buffet: ‘The Hobbit’ story’s Deep Throat, Gallup’s concession, 80-20’s fundraising ploy, and Facing Race 2012BLOG
- The High-Achiever’s Exit: A Veterans Day observation about our former top vet, soldier, and spy, General PetraeusBLOG
- Diversity’s thunder shakes national politics, and Asian Americans played a roleBLOG
- Voting Asian American, Sandy, and how sports can matter in politicsBLOG
- What America can learn from the San Francisco GiantsBLOG
- On Bruno Mars and SNL, Larry Itliong, and why I’m not watching the third debateBLOG
- Saturday Night Regression: More Charlie Chan humor from SNLBLOG
- Is Fisher really the case to end affirmative action?BLOG
- The First Presidential Debate, Asian Americans, and Affirmative ActionBLOG
- Romney? Obama? National Asian American Survey reveals the community’s evolving political mindsetBLOG
- Gangnam-style: Of convention bounces, Psy hopping, and voter ID lawsBLOG
- The President’s Speech: Obama’s “New Deal”–America’s Basic BargainBLOG
- Diversity alive and well at DNC as Michelle Obama, Julian Castro starBLOG
- Eastwood’s chair: People of color as invisible as Obama at the Republican National ConventionBLOG
- “Asian-spotting” the GOP convention: Elephants aplenty, but do Asian Americans show up?BLOG
- New Field Poll in California says Asian Americans support the Affordable Care ActBLOG
- Asian vs. Asian: Why are some Asian Americans carrying Abby Fisher’s water in the affirmative action debate?BLOG
- Tale of three shootings: Aurora, Sikh temple, Oikos–how it plays when victims are people of colorBLOG
- The White Terrorist at the Sikh TempleBLOG
- Unity 2012 and Affirmative ActionBLOG
- Aurora suspect James Holmes at first sight, but will the feeling fade?BLOG
- Linsanity, Ann Curry, and a New America Media awardBLOG
- The war in Afghanistan, boot camp, and the Dream ActBLOG
- Ronald Ebens, the man who killed Vincent Chin, apologizes 30 years laterBLOG
- Can we all get along? Recalling injustice from Rodney King to Vincent ChinBLOG
- My pre-Father’s Day GiantBLOG
- Last Fight for Manny Pacquiao?BLOG
- Affirmative action foes’ new tool: Asian Americans as the New JewsBLOG
- Bundle Up for Democracy, and for your Eggs ObamaBLOG
- Ravi Sentence: Fair and Balanced?BLOG
- Are Asian Americans really for the end of affirmative action?BLOG
- Obama’s Ohana and Our Umbrella ProblemBLOG
- With dog-eating joke, President Obama embraces his “Asian American-ness”BLOG
- Racial profiling anyone?BLOG
- Immigrant go home? Gladly, sort of.BLOG
- Fighting Barry’s Racist EruptionBLOG
- No Model Minority: The Alienation of Oakland’s One L. GohBLOG
- Saving Justice Kennedy’s blind man and the Affordable Care ActBLOG
- After the Ravi verdict, a need for compassion, clarityBLOG
- Romney wins in the South–PacificBLOG
- My first bully, Lady Gaga, and Rush LimbaughBLOG
- Leaping to Super TuesdayBLOG
- Watching Oscar: Sacheen Littlefeather, we need youBLOG
- Linsanity is no reason to bring out the “C” wordBLOG
- Linsanity? Call it Linphomania.BLOG
- Zakaria’s Soros interview: Thinking like a billionaireBLOG
- Giants may be hot, but the NYPD? Not.BLOG
- Winning dirty in Florida and the fight goes onBLOG
- Obama’s Fair or Foul?BLOG
- Romney’s taxes, self-deportation, and observations about Florida Debate IBLOG
- Gingrich Win is an Opening for – Santorum?BLOG
- Bye-Bye Yahoo, Hello Jerry Yang 5.0?BLOG
- Sado-Capitalist Romney heads to the SouthBLOG
- Santorum: The Tim Tebow of Politics, but Google Him FirstBLOG
- The Diversity Deficit in Iowa and New Hampshire, Gingrich’s Pearl Harbor, and Danny ChenBLOG
- Yearning for a North Korean Spring?BLOG
- Lowe’s hits new lows in corporate responsibilityBLOG
- Mayor Ed Lee flexes his muscle with useless crackdown on Occupy SFBLOG
- Newt Gingrich and his grand immigration ployBLOG
- UC Davis pepper spray incident boosts Occupy, restores faith in student protestsBLOG
- Ed Lee and Jerry Sandusky: one winner, one loserBLOG
- Ed Lee’s Ranked Choice High in San FranciscoBLOG
- Does it really matter if San Francisco gets its first elected Asian American mayor?BLOG
- Oakland on display: City pays price to occupy the First AmendmentBLOG
- Voting rights violations in San Francisco Mayoral election?BLOG
- It happened in Vegas: When Mitt puts his mitts on PerryBLOG
- When Democracy Meets DiversityBLOG
- Occupied or self-occupied? Thoughts on America’s anti-corporate protestBLOG
- The Republicans’ Perry problem and a new trend-Conservatives embrace illegal immigrationBLOG
- “Don’t ask, don’t tell” bad for the military, but good enough for civilian life-and “Anderson”BLOG
- Emergency chute needed, even for Asian AmericansBLOG
- Taking the leap: the horror and the love of 9/11BLOG
- With Goodwin Liu, Asian Americans now the majority on California’s highest court-but is diversity the winner?BLOG
- Is America ready for its next revolution? Grace Lee Boggs thinks soBLOG
- David Chiu’s fundraising in New York? Of course, he isBLOG
- “Downgrade pain” courtesy of our political classBLOG
- Bad Deal, Still Bad EconomyBLOG
- Farewell to Tigger WuBLOG
- Deng’s Paw: Showing some claw in defense of her MurdochBLOG
- Affirmative action’s still kicking, but so is its nemesis, Ward ConnerlyBLOG
- Vargas, the UndocumentedBLOG
- New York’s Same-Sex Victory Lifts the ParadeBLOG
- The Koh-bama approach in LibyaBLOG
- Vincent Chin? Remembering Ronald Ebens-the guy who got away with murderBLOG
- Scott Pelley, AnchormanBLOG
- Shaq’s greatest slur and one more time for GoodwinBLOG
- Why President Obama shouldn’t give up on the Liu nominationBLOG
- On Firsting, APA Heritage Month, and “Paper Tigers”BLOG
- Previously on CSI: OsamaBLOG
- Obama gets Osama: one less boogeyman, but will a new one emerge?BLOG
- A bias toward hate crimes in Rutgers case?BLOG
- When the housing counselors go, the scammers come to preyBLOG
- Separate but equal: journalists of color run out of unityBLOG
- My slant on The Slants and other Asian American “N” wordsBLOG
- Obama’s Crystal Clear QuagmireBLOG
- Of white hoods, push-up bras and getting on your “ching-chong”BLOG
- Punk’d Exec No Reason to Defund NPR?BLOG
- GOP’s Cover Wearing Thin on Its Distaste for Goodwin LiuBLOG
- Gaming Democracy in San FranciscoBLOG
- On union busting, nation busting, and the reverse immigration of retireesBLOG
- The Patron Saint of the Undocumented is an Asian AmericanBLOG
- Missing the Boat on Limbaugh?BLOG
- Why we all must remember Fred T. KorematsuBLOG
- Obama’s SOTUS: Just Enough To Keep Us InterestedBLOG
- The last word on Tiger Mom: Hu?BLOG
- San Francisco’s Political Gold MountainBLOG
- It’s Brown in the Yellow StateBLOG
- Rendell’s comments far from innocentBLOG
- Legislation and Real LifeBLOG
- Tax-cut politics: “Robin Hood in Reverse”BLOG
- Who’s Still Dreaming the Dream?BLOG
- WikiLeaking on U.S. diplomatic effortsBLOG
- Since when did the “S” in TSA stand for “sex”?BLOG
- SNL’s Hu Jintao a new “Charlie Chan-ism”?BLOG
- Undocumented to get “Bushwhacked”?BLOG
- On California, Nikki Haley and Identity PoliticsBLOG
- Asian American Tea Party?BLOG
- Hate Crime For Rutgers Outers?BLOG
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